Pencil-holder.



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T. GARENGE.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR.23,1914.

Patented July '7, 1914,

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THOMAS CARENGE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J 1Y7 1914..

Application filed March 23, 1914. Serial N 0. 826,497.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS OARENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pencill-lolders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pencil holders.

The object of my invention is to provide a pencil holder which is convenient to carry, which is inexpensive to manufacture, and which will securely hold a pencil andat the same time guard the point thereof from injury.

Other novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pencil holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the pencil holder, showing in dotted lines a pencil mounted therein. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the pencil holder is formed. Fig. l is a cross section on the line l-l of Fig. 2.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in, the different views.

1 designates the body of the pencil holder which is made, preferably, from a plate of sheet metal, such as brass, aluminum or steel, which possesses, at least, an amount. of resiliency su'flicient for the purpose hereinafter referred to.

In Fig. 3 is shown a blank from which the pencil holder is formed. Extending laterally from opposite edges of the body 1, as shown in Fig. 3, are extensions 2, which, as shown in the other figure, are formed into rings 2 or hollow cylinders, the axes of which are parallel with the longitudinal edges of the body 1. Preferably the rings 2' are formed on the same side of the body 1.

One end of the body 1 isprovidcd, as shown in Fig. 3, with two longitudinal extensions 3 which are first bent laterally on the line ab of Fig. 3, and then again on the line c-d of Fig. 3, thereby forming two resilient tongues 3, which extend respectively toward and are in alinement with the rings 2. The free ends of the tongues 3 are respectively formed on the sides next to the body 1 into longitudinal channels 4 which are respectively adapted to receive two pencils respectively mounted in and extending through the rings 2, one of such pencils being shown in Fig. 2, and designated by 5. The tongues 3 are so spaced from the body 1, that they will be sprung outwardly from the body as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, when the pencils are inserted in the channels 4. The pencils will thus be securely held, while their points will be guarded by the transverse portions of the tongues 3' at the bases thereof.

For attaching the pencil holder to a garment, I preferably attach to the rear side of the body 1 adjacent to the upper end thereof the upper end of a longitudinal resilient metal plate (5, the lower end of which is, preferably, slightly curved away from the body 1, to permit the ready insertion of the plate 6 through a button hole or into a pocket of a garment.

For the, purpose of carrying a card, containing advertising matter or adapted to have memoranda inscribed thereon, the longitudinal edges of the body 1, above the rings 2' are inwardly turned so as to form two longitudinal grooves 7 which are adapted to receive opposite edges of a card not shown, the card beinginsertible in the upper ends of the grooves 7. i

I do not limit my invention to the structure illustrated and described, as modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without. departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pencil holder comprising a body, a

ring carried by the body at one side thereof for receiving therethrough a pencil, and a resilient tongue extending over and carried by the body, with its free end adjacent to and in alinement with said ring, said free end having a channel on the side adjacent to the body adapted to receive and clampingly hold against the body said pencil.

2. A pencil holder comprising a sheet metal plate of resilient material, said plate having at one edge a lateral extension formed into a ring disposed at one side of the body of the plate, the plate at one end having a resilient tongue extending laterally from the body of the plate, in alinement with said ring, and then toward said ring at the same side of the plate as the ring, the free end of the tongue having on the side adjacent to the body of the plate a channel adapted to receive and clanipingly hold against the body a pencil eXtended through said ring.

8. A pencil holder comprising a body, two rings carried by the body at one side thereof for respectively receiving tWo' pencils and two resilient tongues carried ,by the body in alineinent respectively with said two and having their free ends at the sides adjacent to the body respectively formed into two channels adapted to respectively receive said tWo pencils and clampingly hold them against the body.

l. A pencil holder comprising a sheet metal plate of resilient material having at opposite edges respectively two lateral extensions foi'nned into rings adapted to receive theretliiough respectively two pencils, the plate at one end being provided with two tongues disposed respectively in alinement with said two rings, said tongues being first bent laterally and then extended respectively toward said rings, said tongues having at their free ends in the sides next to the body of the plate channels respectively for receiving said pencils.

5; A pencil holder comprising a body,- a ring carried thereby at one side thereof for receiving a pencil, and a resilient tongue extending laterally from one end of the body and then over the body in alineinent With said. ring at the same side of the body as the ring. the free end of the tongue being provided With means for einbracing said pencil Copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each-,- by addressing the Commissioner of ?atents,

Washington, D. 0. 

